1956 Navy Midshipmen football team
American college football season
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The 1956 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1956 college football season. The team was led by seventh-year head coach Eddie Erdelatz.[1]
ConferenceIndependent
CoachesNo. 19
APNo. 16
Record6–1–2
| 1956 Navy Midshipmen football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 19 |
| AP | No. 16 |
| Record | 6–1–2 |
| Head coach |
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| Captain | Earle Smith |
| Home stadium | Thompson Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 Miami (FL) | – | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 16 Navy | – | 6 | – | 1 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida State | – | 5 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Tech | – | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rankings from AP poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 29 | William & Mary | W 39–14 | 14,051 | [2] | ||||
| October 6 | at Cornell | W 14–0 | 20,000 | [3] | ||||
| October 13 | at Tulane | No. 14 | L 6–21 | 45,000 | [4] | |||
| October 20 | Cincinnati |
| W 13–7 | 14,000 | [5] | |||
| October 27 | at Penn | W 54–6 | 24,721 | [6] | ||||
| November 3 | vs. Notre Dame | W 33–7 | 57,773 | |||||
| November 10 | at Duke | No. 12 | T 7–7 | 25,000 | [7] | |||
| November 17 | vs. Virginia | No. 15 |
| W 34–7 | 12,000 | [8] | ||
| December 1 | 1:15 p.m. | vs. Army | No. 13 |
| NBC | T 7–7 | 102,000 | [9][10] |
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